Political and economic relevance of the Black Sea region for Europe
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WKÖ - Rudolf Sallinger-Saal
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German and English language
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Ovidiu DRANGA
Director-General for Policy Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
| 2005 | - Director General for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; |
| 2001-2005 | Director General, Ministry of National Defence (MoD): |
| Chairman of MoD NATO selection board; | |
| Chairman of the inter-ministerial committee on Black Sea issues; | |
| Spokesperson on-call (spring 2001) and editor of various publications on NATO & security issues (2001-2003); | |
| 2000-2001 | Director, NATO & Strategic Issues Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs: |
| Executive Director, National Security Authority (NSA); | |
| 1999 | 2000 Deputy Head of Mission, Mission of Romania to NATO and WEU, Bruxelles; |
| 1996- 1999 | Second and first secretary, Mission of Romania to NATO and WEU, Bruxelles; |
| 1995-1996 | Second secretary, NATO, WEU and Council of Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; |
| 1994-1995 | Third secretary, Policy Planning and Speech Writing Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; |
| 1991-1994 | Attaché, Policy Planning Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; |
| 1990-1991 | Journalist, Lumea foreign policy weekly; |
| 1990 | Analyst, Ministry of Youth and Sports. |
Dr. Aydin FINDIKCI
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
| 1987-1991 | Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Bremen |
| 1992-1997 | Dissertation an der Universität Bremen |
| 2000-2004 | Assis. Prof. an der Universität Kafkas in Kars/Türkei |
| seit 2005 | Dozent an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Stefana GREAVU
Minister Counsellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Bucharest
| 1987 | started her diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania |
| 1987-1992 | and 1993-1994 she worked in the Western Europe Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (German respectively |
| Austrian Desk Officer) and was appointed as Deputy Director of this Division in 1998 (until 1999) | |
| 1992-2003 | she was successively a member of the Romanian Embassies in Bonn, Berlin, Vienna (Deputy Head of Mission) and |
| of the General Consulate of Romania in Munich | |
| 2004 | Executive Manager in the BSEC Permanent International Secretariat (PERMIS) by the decision of the BSEC |
| Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in April 2004 for a term in office of 3 years. | |
| She is responsible for the coordination of the activities of the following Working Groups(subsidiary organs of BSEC): WG on Combating Crime, WG on Environmental Protection, WG on Health Care and Pharmaceutics, Good Governance and Institutional Renewal, Ad-Hoc Working Group for the BSEC-EU interaction. |
Dr. Vakhtang KOLBAIA
The South Caucasus Institute of Regional Security - SCIRS; Deputy Chairman of Parliament of Georgia, Tbilisi
| Member of Parliament of Georgia | |
| Deputy Chairman of Parliament of Georgia | |
| Chairman of Temporary Commission on Abkhazia Issues | |
| Member of supreme council of autonomous Republic of Abkhazia |
B.A, M.A Halil KULLUK
Chairman, Turkish-Georgian Business Council of DEIK, Istanbul
| 1985-1987 | Research Engineer and System Scientist at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University |
| 1987 | - Director of the Flexible Manufacturing Laboratory, Principle Investigator of the Factory of the Future for Small and |
| Medium-sized Manufacturers project | |
| 1988 | - Founded Manufacturing and Engineering Technology Application Center (METAC) / Director of the Center/He was |
| actively involved in the creation and application of technology | |
| transfer models between the university and industry in the fields of robotics, computer integrated manufacturing, | |
| articial intelligence and expert systems | |
| This spin-off company from Carnegie Mellon University acted as the foundation for Intekno Teknoloji Transfer San. | |
| ve Tic. A.^. which was later started by Kulluk in Istanbul as result of growing activities between U.S.A. and Turkey | |
| - He was appointed Adjunct Professor by the Department of Mechanical Engineering | |
| 1999 | - He has been providing executive level consulting services for PNC Bank of USA in Turkey for promoting |
| U.S. Exim Bank related services |
Dr. Thomas MAYR-HARTING
Chair, International Advisory Board, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
| 1977 | Law Studies in Vienna (Dr. iur.) |
| 1977-1978 | Postgraduate-Studies, College of Europe, Bruges |
| 1978 | Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague |
| 1979 | Joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service |
| 1982-1986 | Austrian Mission to the European Communities, Brussels |
| 1986-1990 | Austrian Embassy, Moscow |
| 1991-1993 | Private Office of the Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna |
| 1993-1995 | Deputy Head of Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Mock and Schüssel, Vienna |
| 1995-1999 | Director for Security Policy and Policy Planning, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1996-1999 | Deputy Political Director, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1999-2003 | Ambassador of Austria to Belgium and Head of the Austrian Mission to NATO, Brussels |
| 2002-2004 | Special Representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister for the Western Balkans |
| 2003-2004 | Representative of the Federal Chancellor of Austria in the Commission on the Reform of the Austrian Armed Forces, Vienna |
| 2003-2008 | Political Director (Director General for Political Affairs) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 2008-2011 | Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, New York |
| 2009-2010 | Also represented Austria on the United Nations Security Council, New York (President of the Security Council in November 2009) |
| 2011 | Vice-President of the 66th General Assembly of the UN, New York |
| 2011-2015 | Ambassador, (Head of the Delegation) of the European Union to the United Nations, New York |
| since 2015 | Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service, Brussels |
| Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges and Natolin |
Prof. Dr. Volodymyr NIKITIN
Deputy Director on Development, International Centre for Policy Studies
| Specialist in organisational aspects of development in the areas of administration, education, and research. Experienced in providing methodological assistance to NGOs and governments in Ukraine and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyz Republic) in introducing public policy analysis and promoting the institutional development. | |
| 1965-1995 | Junior and then senior research associate, Head of the Department of History-related Methodological Problems, |
| Kyiv (Ukraine), Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of the Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning | |
| 1995-2000 | Professor, Head of the Department of Humanities, Toliatti (Russia), International Academy for Business |
| and Banking Affairs | |
| 2000 | -present Deputy Director on Development, Kyiv (Ukraine), International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS) |
Valeriu OSTALEP
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova
| 2000 | Attaché within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, European Integration Department |
| 2002 | Head of Section of the National Office for the Stability Pact |
| 2004 | Director of the National Office for the Stability Pact |
| 2005 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration |
Mag. Ernst GELEGS
Büroleiter, ORF - Österreichischer Rundfunk, Budapest
| 1981-1986 | Studium der Politikwissenschaft und Publizistik, Universität Wien |
| 1986 | Diplomarbeit: Fachrichtung Internationale Politik; Thema: Nahostkonflikt |
| 1981 | Eintritt in den ORF (Hörfunk), journalistischer Mitarbeiter in der Sportredaktion und beim aktuellen Dienst Hörfunk |
| 1986-1991 | Reporter Aktueller Dienst, Landesstudio Niederösterreich |
| 1991-1995 | Reporter/Redakteur Zeit-im-Bild, Ressort Innenpolitik |
| 1996-1997 | ORF Korrespondent in London |
| 1996-1999 | Reisekorrespondent in Krisengebieten wie Serbien, Kroatien, Bosnien, Nordirland, Irak und in zahlreichen |
| europäischen Ländern, die kurzfristig in den Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit gerieten wie Albanien, | |
| Slowakei, Ägypten, Syrien etc. | |
| seit 2000 | Osteuropa-Korrespondent mit Sitz in Budapest, verantwortlich für die ORF Berichterstattung aus Ungarn, Tschechien, Slowakei, Rumänien, Bulgarien, Griechenland und Republik Moldau |
